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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1857-02-24

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1f VOL III. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 24, 1857. NO 15. k 1 15 : Ill ifltf m r,ff . From tha Boston Atlai. THE SAILOIt'4 DREAM. One beautiful Sunday forenoon, I was walk ing the quarter deck of a fine ship running down the north-east trades. Wm. Thornton, (nolil weather-beaten sailor was at the wheel and I could hear him occasionally humming tho air of " Black-eyed Susan," when my back was towards him. Uo was an excollent holmsman, and kept tho ship to her course true as tho needle of the polos. Although it is still, as it was then, contrary to rulo, to en tor into conversation with the man at the wheel, yet observing William smile, and raise his hat Upon "nine hairs," I asked him sympathcti colly " What are you thinking about, Wil liam ? " " About my sweetheart, sir." " Are you going to get married again when you re turn ? " "I was nevor married, sir, nor never Will be, if I should live a thousand years, yet t have a sweetheart. It's just 40 years this day since I saw her, and I never saw hor but once. " But what interest can you have in an old salt's silly love dreams ?" "Go ahead William, tell mo about this sweetheart. I'm :n love myself, and can sympathise with you. " Well, sir. it is just 40 years this day since I strolled into one of the big churches in Broadway, and was invited to a scat in a grand pew by an elderly gentleman. There were two young ladies with him, One of them, the moment our eyes met, said as plainly as eyes could speak, " I'm glad to see you again." I was sure f had seen her before, I felt that we were old playmates, but for the soul of me I could not tell where. I could hardly take my eyes off of hor, she looked so good. When the services commenced she put a prayer-book in my hand and pointed to tho " lesson for the day," but I looked more at her than I did at the lesson. I was young then, sir, and good looking, too, and had as much self-conceit as most young men, but the more I looked at that sweet girl the less I thought of myself. When the services wore over I followed her to the door of the carriage, and could not help saying, as the gentleman handed her in, " God bless you, my sweet angel," and to my surprise instead of being offended, she replied, " Thank you, sir, and may lie bless you too," The gontleman raised his hat to mo and smiled. "Good-byo, Jack," he said "good luck to you." It was tho voice of a sailor; he was no doubt, a retired sea captain. Both the ladies, though I had neglected ono entirely, bowed to mo out of the carriage window. In a moment they were gone, and I never saw them from that jny to this, yet, from that day to this, I have truly loved that sweet girl." " Did you never try to find who she was ?" I inquired. "No, sir; what was the use? I felt my self a poor, ignorant sailor, hardly able to writo my own name ; and I was not silly enough to think that such a lovely girl would care anything about me. Thinking about her took all the self-conceit out of me." " But you said you thought you had seeir- ber before ; how was that ?" " It was only a dream, sir. I nover saw her beforo. Now, as I'm growing old, I have beon thinking seriously about trying to be good, that I may meet hor in heaven. Every Sunday for forty years, has the sceno in that church been before me, and every time I think upon my sweet girl, she looks moro lovely than before. I could nover think of marrying, with her image ever present in my mind. Do you think, sir, it is possible for an old sinner liko mo to be good enough to go to Heaven ? " "Why not, William?" " I'll tell you why. About eight years ago I left the sea, for then I dreamed that I saw my dear angol go to Heaven, and I tried to bo good. I worked alongshore with niggers and stevedores, and had over two thousand dollars that 1 savod, so I got along very comfortably. I joined a church, and thought I had got religion, when a rascally deacon cheated me out of fifty dollars. I was bo thundering mad, that I gavo the fellow an awful hiding, and before ho could set the law dogs on me, I was at sea again. I think now that I did very wrong J but I'm so hard hearted, that I can't in my soul, forgive the fellow, even to this day. "My sweet angel tells me in my dreams that I must forgive him, and that if 1 wish to join her I must be good." He said much moro, but the above affords a glance at his inner life, and shows the purity of his soul. It must not be thought that he was 4 man of dauntlesscourage ; bold even to recklessness, and quick to resent an insult. No men are thrown more upon their own resources for mental food than seamen. For weeks and even months sky and water are their only companions ; and on long voyages, whea they have watch-and-watch, their la-lxir is very light It is then their minds dwell upon the pleasant scenes of the past, and make the dross of earth appear divine. Bill Thornton's case is not singular. Almost every sailor has some beauteous love-dream, and hence the reason why so few of them marry. The ideal has moro charms for them than the real. With all their faults sailors are not bad men As a class, in a rude way, they lore the true, the beautiful and the good, and are proverbial for their generosity. May they all go to hea-' yen at last Warts on Horses. - A correspondent of the Country Gentleman ' says i "I had a horse which had wart on one ' of his fore legs. I applied s ligature, and in few days it came off, and appeared to be cured ; but soon began to grow again, and in a few months became ss large as hen's egg, and eventually a running sore. I again removed it with ft ligature, and applied nitrate of silver .(innar caustic) to the wound at intervals of . two or three dtys, for about three weeks, when It healed up and has given no furthertrou-Ve," From the Cayuga Chief. NEBRA8KA CORRESPONDENCE. Omaha Citt, N. T., Dec. 3. 1850. Dear Sir : Having a little leisure timo, I improve it by writing to you of Nebraska ; and I will horo say that I have not had a vory great chance to look about, as it was so late when we arrived. We found Omaha a now town, pleasantly situatod on the Missouri river, some eight hundred miles (by way of tho river) abovo St. Louis. It is, as you are aware, the Capital of tho Territory, and con-tuins some fifteen hundred inhabitants. Ithas quite a number of stores, some of which are fine three-story brick buildings and several fine residences, also two churches, ono of which is to bo dedicated next Sabbath, and the other will not be completed, except the basement this year. When you take into account that tho town is only a little over two years old, you can . niako up your mind as to its vitality. Tho country back of the town is rolling prairie, and appears to bo pretty well watered by springs and small streams, and I should think was well supplied with quarry stono. Coal also has been foud in various places. Along the Missouri and other large rivers, there is considerable timber, although the scarcity of timber is our greatest drawback Lumber is high, and .pur pine is all brought up from St. Louis, and costs when in good condition, about $60per one thousand feet. Since I havo been here, I have known it sold for $120. Property has risen very rapidly the past season, and lots on what is now call ed the best business street, are worth $3,000 each. These lots are sixty-six foot front, by one hundred and thirty-two feet deep. Land about town is held at from twenty-five to one hundred dollars an acre, and as the land is not yet in market, you could of course get only a quit claim title at that. There aro a number of new towns already laid out in tho territory and will of course be moro in tho spring. There aro not, however, but few towns that contain many inhabitants, off from tho Mis souri but we think that thero will bo a num ber of smart towns along the Platte valley, for wo expect that some of theso days, that, that natural course for a railroad to tho Pacific, will bo improved, and that the "iron horso" will snort through flio Platte valley, at tho rate of fifty miles an hour, boaring the riches of a world behind him. I think that valley is as rich a portion of country as thero is in the United States, being from fivo to twelve miles wide, and many hundred miles long. Tho water on tho high prairies is hard, but in the Missouri and Platte rivers it is soft, and in somo portions, and I don't know but in the whole of the latter rivers valley, it is also soft. Since I have been here, I have fallen in with a number of persons who have lived in Kan sas, and they uniformly agree in pronouncing Nebraska fully equal to Kansas, and much the most healthy, I have not seen a marsh here, and but ono or two sloughs, and tho banks of the small streams aro invariably high nnd tho streams themselves rapid. I am also told that tho railroad engineers find Council Bluffs to bo two hundred and seventy-two feet higher than Davenport, which accounts for the rapidity of our streams. Speculators are plenty, and speculation is rampant, and, as a necessary consequence, money is in great demand. Thrco per cent per month, is as common here as twelvo per annum in Wisconsin, and many persons are getting as high as five per cont per month for monoy. Everything in tho way of provisions is also very high. Flour is selling for seven dollars per hundred, potatoes twelve shillings per bushel, beans five dollars per bushel, butter fifty cents per pound, sugar fourteon or fif teen cents do., molasses from six to ten shil lings per gallon, cheeso two shillings per lb., dried apples ten cents do., fresh pork ten cents, lard seventeen cents, hams seventeen cents, codfish twelvo and a half cents, fresh beef eight, snd venison ten cents corn in tho car eighty cents, oats eighty cents, and wheat about ten shillings per bushel. Thus you see it costs something to livo, but wages aro also very high. Common laborers, since I have been here, get $2 per day, carpenters three to four dollars, masons the same and toams four dollars per day. I Of the climate I can say but little. After we came, I think the fall was about like Wis consin ; very little rain, days mostly pleasant, until about the twenty-fourth of November, when wo had a fall of snow of near six inches deep. During the following week, it gradual ly went off until thero was just about enough left for a good bottom for sleighing. Monday morning, the 1st inst., it again commenced snowing, and continued to snow and blow for two days and nights and I must say that I never saw so severe a storm in my life. This morning was pleasant overhead, but hugo snow drifts lie in every place whoro one could pos sibly stick. I cannot toll how deep the snow would have bean had it not blowed so, but there are drifts here in town as many as sev en feet high. My compliments are due to the Postmaster for sending forward my mail. As my sheet is full, I will close. Yours, E. n. B, Speculations In Nebraska Real estate speculation is rampant in Nebraska. Lots are soiling in Omaha at New York city figures. One sale of a lot GOxl32, at $30,000, is reportod. The entire Territory is rapidly being mapped out into town lots. It is proposed, by some of the papers, that Congress pass an act reserving every sixteenth gection' for agricultural purpeess. It should be AomLafayHU (Ind.) Jurnal . - . 1 l I M II li (T The best capital that young man can start with in lift is industry, with good sense, courage, and the fear of God. They are better than cash, credit, qt friends, THE ANGEL IN DISGUISE I OK, HOW TO EUOOKE A UI&DAND A ROMANTIC AND VET TBUB BT0HY. From the Portland (Me.) Tranurlpt.j A beatiful young heiress had become so disgustod with ft flattering set of soft-patcd proma-haircd moustache-lipped, strongly per fumed, suitors for her hand, that she shut herself from tho fashionublo world, turnod all her property into money, deposited it in banks, donned a cheap wardrobe, put on a mask, and wcnt pedestrian-like, through the city in which she had hitherto moved with so much display and magnificence. Sho asked alms of thoso who of Into had knelt at her foot and sued for her hand. They knew hor not, and casting a look of scorn upon hor veiled face and coarse wardrobe, bado her begono. Sho entered tho country hero she met with derision and scorn. A few kind hearted people, it is true, bestow ed aid, but these were of the poorer class, who had hard work to procure their own daily bread ; but they could not turn a fellow creature hungry from their door j and thoreforc gave a small pittanco from their scanty storo Ono summer day, a large party met on beach. They were mostly from the city. Tho disguised heiress, from some causo oroth-cr, had wandered there. She asked alms ol somo termed "upper tens." They spoke tauntingly, but gave nothing. What they said had been heard by quite a number of their company. Most of them laughed, or looked as if they thought it " served her right." Tho beggar woman turned about and was walking sadly away, when a good looking gentleman stepped forward and catching hold of her arm, thus spoke : "Stay, my good woman tell mo what you want." She replied in a low trembling tone, "I want a sixpence only a sixpence" "You shall have ten times the sum. Here," he added, drawing from his pocket an eagle, and placed it in the gloved hand of tho woman, " take this, and if it is not enough I will give you another." Tho heiress returned tho eagle, exclaiming, "I want a sixpence only a sixpence." Seeing that sho could not be made to take the coin, the gentleman drew forth a sixpence and gave it to tho strange being beside him, who after thanking the generous donor, walk ed slowly away. After being laughed at for so doing by his comrades, ho sot out in pursuit of tho beggar woman, saying. " Perhaps sho is an heiress or an angel in disguise I mean to ascertain." Not that ho thought this. Ho wished to show his indifference to what his comrades said, besides satisfying himsclfabout the strange fumalo whom ho had aided. Ho soon over took her, and addressed her thtts "Pardon mo, madam, fortmrsuing you. I would know moro about you." As tho speaker ceased, tho mask dropped from the face of the female, and tho beautiful heiress portrayed beforo tho astonished gen tleninn. That they were afterwards married, the reader has already imagined, for the heiress used tliis means of procuring a worthy husband, and tho generous gentleman had been long looking for an heiress in disguise. Tho happy husband is often heard to say that ho got an " heiress for a sixpence." M ILL IT BE A WARNING. A correspondent of tho Boston Journal says that tho wife of Huntington, tho forger, has been stripped of her homo and her all in one hour. The sheriff has sold her house over her head. Her jowels, valued at $13,000, aro with tho Beldcns. What has boon dono with the vast sums of money Huntington left, none can tell. But this is true, that want, liko an armed man, has come into his family. And to keep herself from absolute want she has been compelled to part with her clothes and her little ornaments of better days. So tho career of crime has one moro beacon set up in tho pathway of life one moro family has been hurled from tho summit of high position and honor in ft moment one more wifo and mother to gather up her little children, on whoso heads dishonor has been stamped, without their fault black as tho brand of Cain, and go out from a comfortable homo to meet want, and scorn, and brave the cold, glassy eye of tho world, and fcol the hot breath of its sneer ono moro example is given to us to teach how the same talents which lead to high crime and tho pris- on, employed aright could confer honor and permanent success on its possessor, and be a blessing to tho land. Liko a convict who fulls from a ship, Huntington has parted and agi tated the waves for a moment, and goes down beneath the surge, and the rolling flood sweeps over his placo, and the tide of life waves on forgotting that ho ever lived. But who will be counselled, warned, saved by his end ? Who will beliove the lesson that thousands of years have taught, that integrity and honor aro the only paths to permanent success. Phila. Timet. A School Girl' Love. Thero is both truth snd poetry in the fol lowing lines, written by school girl, and we dare say that the recollection of those early dreams, so strangely different from the actual experience of life, are still the most pleasant of all memorios. Thero is no sunshine like that ol childhood. It gleams through all the olouds of disappointment; and smiles upon us till the river of life mingles with the ocean of eternity: I eoild sa set mj leeeon, Wl the book before my ees For the thought! o Cenuj Willie, Came a bobbin ia between. frV The best way to expand the chest is tejsvs large heart inside of it. SHAPING TREES AND SHRUBS Who has not observed the great difference in beauty between a handsomely shaped tree and ono of uncouth or distorted form of the same species ? How ofton do purchasers of ornamental shrubs and trees anxiously search for symmetrical specimens forgetting, or not knowing, that tho most irregular may boensi ly pruned into any desired shape. If tho Dutch gardeners display so much skill in training vegetable growth into peacocks and hedge hogs, American gardners may find an appropriate exercise of their skill in imitating the graceful and beautiful in nature. At tho present season, or during tho commencement of vigorous growth, tho desirable object may bo most cosily accomplished. By occasionally removing needless shoots, but more frequently shortening back such as or" overgrown or pinching in those that threaten to becomo so, and looping certain portions to induce dormant buds to push where branches and foliago may be deficient, a degreo of skill may bo oxorciscd, not unworthy of comparison with that of the artist who developes a beautiful statute from a shapeless block of marblo. Even small plants, which othcrwiso would grow tall and meagre, may be made to assume a bushy and thick appearance, by pinching off the ends of the leading shoots while they are young. Tho Jinghsn gardeners nave acquired a skill in managing in this way their pot plants intended for public exhibition, that is really astonishing to those who first witness the rich, beautiful and symmetrical masses of flowers and foliage which they are thus enabled to present to view. A great error is ofton committed when flow ering plants are placed in open ground, by crowding them too closely together, giving them too much tho appearance of weeds. They are much tho best when every plant is allowed full room to expand. When Crowded, the flowers aro fower and more imperfect, and the plants and foliago slender, and greatly in ferior in beauty to tho dense and rich mass of well developed leaves and bloom of a freely growing uncrowded plant. Atbang Cultivator. From tho SnnFrnnciscoIIcriilil Jan 5, a men mse. Some fivo years ago, a company, consisting of five Irishmen and one man from Piko county, " located" on a claim near Allison's ranch on Wolf Creek, and but a couple of miles from . Grass Valley. At first, and for nearly two years they worked in the bed of tho stream and in the lionks, making fair average wages-About cightoon months ago they struck vein of auriferous quartz. A wagon load of it was dug up, crushed and found to yield one hun drcd dollars to tho ton. They then carried several loads of it to the Gold Hill mill, which yielded ono hundred and fifty dollars to the ton, and sixty-two tons of tho rock produced as high as throe hundred dollars per ton. The company then went to work to erect a quartz mill, which was completed on tho first of October last, at a cost of $10,000. Meanwhile somo seven nunarea tons more were gotten out, which yieldod all tho way from two hundred and fifty to fivo hundred dollars per ton Tho lead is from one to four feet in thickness and increases in width as explorations are made The cost of crushing the rock is twelve dollars ahd fifty cents, and the averngo amount crushed twenty tons por day. The regular yield of amalgum of this mill is not less than thirty thousand dollars por week ; and as the total expenses of runnkg it will not exceed fifteen hundred dollars for tho sanio length of timo, it is easy to see what a princely fortune is rolling in upon tho fortunate ownors of this gold mino. A portion only of their earnings is brought down to tho mint for coinage, but as tho subjoined figures show, that " institu tion " can bear unequivocal testimony of tho richness of their claim. On tho 8th of November there were deposi ted nino hundred and twenty-two ounces ; on the 27th ono thousand ono hundred and nine ty-tureo ounces, and sixty-four hundreths of an ounce. J. ho original holders ot this magnificent claim still retain possession of it, and, as might be expected, aro totally adverse to disposing of shares. A lovii Blunder. Two young gentlemen mot, a few evenings ago, at the bouse ot an acquaintance, some young ladies blew out tho lamp, and our two friends, thinking it ft favorable momont to make known the state of their feelings Eo the fair object of their rcgard.moved their feelings to tho fair object of their regard, moved their scats at the samo instant, and placed themselves, as thoy supposed, by the lady's sido i sho had "also moved, and the gentlemen were in reality, next to each other. As our friend could not whisper without betraying their wherabouts, they both gently took, as thoy thought, the soft littlo hand of the charmer ; and whon after ft whilo, thoy ventured to give a tcudcr pressure, each was enraptured to linn it retumod with an unmistakable squeeze. It in b well imagined thai moments flew rapidly in this silent interchange of mutual affection. But the ladies, wondcreing at tho unusual silence of the gentlemen, one of thom noiselessly slipped out, and suddenly returned with ft light There sat our friends, most lovingly squeezing each othercrs hands, and supreme delight beaming in their eyes. Thoir consternation, and the octacy of the ladies may bo imagined, but not described. Doth gentlemen bolted, and one was afterwards heard to say that "he thought all the while Miss 's hand felt rattier naru. Illinois CaluinH fjT That woman deserves not husband's generous love who will not greet him with smiles as he returns from the labor of the day who will not try to-chain him to his home by the sweet enchantment of s cheerful heart. Thore is not one in fifty that is so unfeeling ss to withstand such sn influence, and break sway from such t b,oe, , ., '.'m LETTER FROM HON. CHARLES SUMNER TO THE MASNACHU-SETTS LEGISLATURE. In tho Massachusetts IIouso of Representatives on Friday, communication accepting tho office of Senator in tho United States for tho next six years, was receivod from Hon. Charles Sumner, and read by tho Speaker, Hon. Charles A. Pholps. Fellow Citizeni of the Senate and House of Hep- tcsenlatives. I havo beon officially notified that the pco- plo of Massachusetts, by concurrent votes o' both tho branches of tho Legislature, have charged mo with tho duty of representing them in the Scnato of tho United States for another term of six years on the expiration of that which I now havo tho honor to hold. This renewed trust jf accept with gratitude enhanced by tho peculiar circumstances un. dor which it has Ixsen bestowed. But far beyond every personal gratification is tho delight of knowing by this sign, that the people of Massachusetts forgetting ancient par ty hates, havo at last como together in frater nal support of a sacred cause, compared with which tho fate of any public servant is of small account. When first selected for this eminent trust I was a stranger to all official life. Untried in public affairs, I was takon up and placed, without antecedent aspiration, in tho station where after an experience of nearly six years, you now, with spontaneous unanimity, bid me remain.About to commence ft fresh term of servico turn with honest pride to that which is about to closo, whilo I greet anew the duties and responsibilities of my position ; hoping that by concicntious endeavors, I may do something in the future better than in tho past, and mindful that ho who girdcth on his armor should not boast himself as ho who puttcth it off. Tho duties of a public servant are not al ways conspicuous. Much of his timo is ab sorbed in cases, which, if not obscure, aro lit tle calculated to attract public attention. Mas sachusetts justly expects that no such interests shall be neglected. But by solemn resolution of her Legislature, by the votes of her people, and by the voice of her history, Massachusetts especially enjoins upon her representatives to see that, at all hazards, and whatever else may sutler, Freedom shall prevail. Let me not neglect tins injunction. Ahko by sympathy with tho slave and by a determination to save ourselves from wretched thraldom, we arc also summoned to tho ef fort now organized for tho emancipation of tho National Government from a degrading influ ence hostile to civilization which, wherever it shows, itself oven at a distance, is brutal vulgar and mean, and constitutes an unnatural tyranny, calculated to arouse the generous in dignation ot good men. Of course, no person, who is not ready to say in his heart that there is no God, can doubt tho certain result. But this result, like every great good, can be accomplished only by a well directed effort. I know something of tho labor and trial which such sorvico impos es ; 1 also know something of the satisfaction which it attords, giving to all who truly es pouse it, a serencr joy than anything in office or honor. In tho weary prostration of months, from which 1 have now happily risen, my sharpest pang camo out of my enforced separation from the cause which was so dear to me ; and now my chief joy is in the assurance that to this service 1 may dedicate tho vigorous health which, through medical caro and the kindly ministration ol nature, 1 am permitted to ex pect. In this well founded assurance I welcome the trust which has again been conferred upon me, whilo I onco more bespeak tho candid judgment of my fellow-citizens, and once more invoke tho guardianship ol a benignant Providence.I have tho honor to bCi fellow citizens, With grateful regard, your faithful. Servant and Senator, CHAS. SUMNER." On motion of Mr. Hale, of Boston, the abovo letter was ordered to bo entered in tho daily journal ot ttio House. THE BOOK OF TIIaNKS. " I feci so vexed and out of temper with Bon !" cried Mark, "that 1 really must" " Do something in revenge ? " cried his cou sin Cecilia. " No ; look over my book of thanks." " What's that ? " inquired his cousin, as she saw him turning over the loaves of a copy book nearly full of writing, in a round, text hand. " Here it is," said Mark, who then road aloud. ,' March 8 Ben lent me his new hat-Hero again : Juno 4 When I lost my shilling, Ben made it up kindly. " Well," observed the boy, turningdown tho leaf, "Ben is a Rood fellow after alL" " What do you noto down in that book ?" inquired Cecelia, lookingovcr his shoulder with somo curiosity. " All the kindnesses that are ever shown me ; you would wonder how many there are: 1 tind a great deal ol good lrom marking thorn down. I do not forget them as I might do if I only trusted to my. memory., so 1 hope that I am not often ungrateful : and when I am cross and out of temper I almost always feel good humored again if I only look over my book." "I wonder what sort of things you put dow iv" saitL Gw.ilia. ; " lot mo. glance over a page." 'Mrs. Wailo asked me to spend a day at her house, and made me. vory happy indeed." "Mrs. 1 helps gave live shillings." " Old Martha Pago asked me every day when I was ill," . " Why do you put fatl.or and mother at tho top of every page ? " asked his cousin. "U they show mo so much kindnes that 1 cannot put it all down, so I just writo their names to remind myself of my great debt of lovo. I know that 1 nover can pay it. And see what I havo put at tha beginning of my book " hvtry goo-i jtjt u from wove," this is to mako mc remember that all the kind friends that I hav. were iriven to ma hv tha Lord.. and while I am grateful td them, I should first of all be thankful to Him." --.- I think that luch of my readers as have ability and time would tind H a capital rian to keep ft Book of Thanks i and may such as cannot write them down yet, keep ft book of remembrances of past kindnesses ' in their hurts, " ' ADDRESS OF W. M. COItHV. To my Constituents of the CourJij and City) The election to fill John P. Slough's vacan-cy will be hold next Monday, and I make it the occasion of a brief confurenco with my con stituents. 7 ho facts of tho expulsion aro all beforo you. To-day there was read in the IIouso a timid protest, reproducing (ho onesided statement of tho manifesto which was signed by tho Democrats here, except myself, and drawn up by Stanley Matthews, who worthily reproduced and defended it last Saturday night in Cincinnati. I can well afford to leave tho document, and the despicable defence of it in your hands. You have read mid appreciated tho original resolution for mileage and per diem, tho controversy over it between Cadwcll and Slough, the words of the former, the blow of the latter, his refusal to iqiologizc to the IIouso, his mutilation of tho statement ho twico road to tho IIouso when it went on tho House journal, his persistence in the original fault at crory stage of the IIouso proceedings, and his hectoring the House and threat ening tho debater up tho voto of expulsion. H ith his general character and manners you aro likowisc acquainted. When the case was heard there wasa choice of resolutions. Mr. Bunker's proposed expulsion, pure and simple. Mr. Hutchison's proposed that Cadwell should be censured by vote, and that Slough should lie publicly reprimanded in open session by tho speaker in behalf of tho House. The signers of the manifesto chose to support tho latter resolution. The majority of two-thirds supported the former. I was ono of them, and spoke and voted in tho affirmative. I now approve of what 1 then did, and if the thing was to do over to day, I would do it again. I have no doubt of bomg sustained by tho action of tho constituency on tho Kith instant. As one of tho guardians of your interest and honor, I could not hesitate between tho resolutions. Expulsion, pure and simple, was tl e proper course of tho Legislature. To have adopted tho other resolution, of a voto of cen sure on Cadwoll, and of public reprimand of aiough, hy the peakcr, would have be n an error. Tho question was not how tho matter of right and wrong stood between the parties, but what was duo to itself by a deliberative body whoso sanctity had been destroyed by an act of violence pcrpctratod by ono member on another in open session. The physical harm dono by Slough to Cadwcll was not great; but a law-maker had become a law breaker in tho very sanctuary of legislation. All that is said about the trilling injury intlic-tod is inappropriate, because there was actual. palpablo violence, with an evil intention ; and homicido would not have been a higher ag ression upon tho Legislature sittine as a de liberative body. Sir. Cadwell had characterized the proposition of Mr. Slough in deserved lang-ago, and as ths majority and minority of the Committee say, without any intention to give oil'ense. Tho IIouso was not outraged by tho language, nor was any other member; and all tho Committee find no fault with Mr. Cad wcll. H would have been, therefore, folly for inu uouse mpass tnovule ot censure on him. Tho other branch of Mr. Hutchison's resolu tion was also objectionable; it proposed the public reprimand of Mr. Slough before the House by the Speaker. But Mr. Slough's of- tenso was principally in his contumacious re fusal to mako amends to the House ; and it would havo beon very edifying to have the Speaker scolding him, and he swearing ut the speaker as ho had done at the debaters. That day in tho history of the Ohio Legislature would have been more mcmorab o than the day of tho assault. I did not intend to con tribute to tho eottins up of such a scene. I do not think well of the entertainment, nor du my constituents. The true line of duty was to exoel Mr. S. because he had violated the rights of the House by assaulting a fellow member, and afterw ards persisted in his fault, in spite of delay forscv cral days, the expressed wish of his friends and tho hope of tho wholo House. There was no time, up to tho calling of yeas and navs. that tho Houso would not have been glad to near Mr. siougn say, i nave trespassed on the dignity and decency of this place, and ask forgiveness for it." The apology would have been at onco received, and everybody felt re lief and pleasure. Having replied to the burthen of the mani festo respecting the smallncss of the harm done, by showing that it hid nothing to do with tho pending question, 1 will add, that il the greatest injury had been perpetrated in heat of blood, but had been repented of, and atoned for, so far as tho IIouso was concerned by a manly acknowledgement and ajiology, the offence against us would havo been infinitely less than it is under present circum stances. 1 ho Legislature owed it to itself, in tho actual case, to expel the member ; but in tho case suggested, our duty would have been reversed. We could sit with a savage who ropentod and asked forgiveness, but not with ono who persisted in the injury, and constantly, by speech and writing, threatened its repetition.And this leads to the correction of another error in all tho reasoning of tho advocates of Mr. Slough, lhcy insist that tho act of ex pulsion ''is tho stamp of degradation." This is also a mistake The degradation is not the act of the Legislature, but his own act. If the Legislature do injustice by taking counsel of its passions, its prejudices, its malice, instead of govorning itself by the rulo of recilude, il is tho Legislature which becomes degraded, and prostrated. 1 ho party expelled rises higher than before in men's esteem, because of his having suffered injustice If I had spoken at Metropolitan Hall, I should have told the president of the meeting tho story of his own expulsion by the Carthage Convention several years ago, when ho was a candidate against J. Farran for Congress. It is the right of all tho candidates in that deliberative body to be heard before the vote is taken, air. Uulla- ghcr mounted tho stand to speak. He was received with scorn and hisses, tie persisted; the imetinc silenced biut. snd ho left off speak ing with a protest, at which the whole Con vention jeered, and gnvo him throe insulting rounds of cheering as bo left tho ground. The coses aro not in any part tho same. He was not a member of tho convention, but a candi date beforo it. Tho body did what tho Leg islature did not dieted unjustly, outrageously, instantly, with contumelious words, shouts and gestures, in destroying his righu. Thoy took bad counsel of their passions. 1 hey were the friends of a popular man whom thoy wan-tod to nominate at once, and by acclamation. ft wm sudden east of injustice, which hurtful only to thoie who participated ana not to him who endured it like a man. . The an- locy is close enough, however, to givo ns light on tho present question. The act of expulsion consigned not Mr. Gallagher to Infamy. He has no doubt forgotten it altogether. - And yot be talked of the corruption of Mood, the desolation of family, and the irreparable wrong of expulsion. I heard admired and wwdwed at (be IhoughUeessMS of excited and unbalanced minds. The President's rulings of order, during tho meeting at iJemocratio Hall, from first to last, on Satur-day night, were about as bad as Mr. Matthews' spjech.and the other proceedings. It was well for the credit of the four elected Congressmen-who wore advertised to speak, that they did nut vindicate the Legislature, by appearing at an entertainment which did not dosorve thoir distinguished presence. As a member of thu iiouso ol Iteprosoiitntives of Ohio, I felt scan dnhzedat tho conduct, passionate and foolish moro than deliberate, of tho officers and the majority of that meeting. .Mr. Matthews found Ins lovel, und tho stenographer has da-gucrreotyped him for inspection as long as he shall Ixs of any intorest to anybody. I leavo the case in your liands, my constituents of tho county and city, and advise at the sanio timo that no man who moans well to his country, and has bad time to rctlcctonhis duty, shall go to tho polls to return an cx-member who has disgraced tho City Ollices by violence, Odd Fellows' Hall by violonoo, tha Ohio Legislature by violence perpetrated on the place, and all when business was being transacted. Tho public has already oiid enough, unavadingly, for his oducation. W. M. COURT. CotuMnus, Fob. 12. 1857. HOW TO MEET A DUELMf, A few years since, as a New England gentleman called Brown was passing a few days at a hotel in ono of our Wostern cities, he had the misfortune to unintentionally offend tho stisceptiblo honor of a tall Indiana Colonel, who was ono of his fellow boarders. His apol-gics not being satisfactory, a challenge was sent him, wliich, however, he declinel upon tho ground of conscientious scruples. The Colonel, who by the way had won in two or three encounters quito a reputation as duelist, at once conceived tho idea that his opponent was a coward and resolved to disgrace him by Hogging him in tho face of all the as-sjinblcd wisdom of tho houso. Accordingly, tho next day at dinner tt'ino, in marched the duelist, armed with a formidable cowhide, and advancing to Brown's chair, proceeded to dust his jacket for him in tho most approvod style. Brown was astonished. Luckily be hod been a Lieutenant of Militia in his native State, and knew the importance of incommoding his enemy by a diversion. So seizing a gravy turreen ho tossed the contents into the face of this belligerent Colonel and before that hero could recover from the drowning sensation thus occasioned, he sprang upon tho table and began to showor upon him with a liberal hanj tho contonts of tho dishes around. " You are an internal " "Coward," the Colonel was about to saf, but at that moment a plate of greens struck lull upon Ins month, and tho wordwas-block-.uled and lost forever. "Ha," cried tho littlo New Englandor, whose blood was now up, " fond of greens aro you ? tako a potatoo too ; " and ho hurled ft telling volley of hard potatoes at him. ' Excellent eggs here, capital things with calves' heads," and crash camo a plate of soft boiled eggs against tho side of his craninm. Tho blows of tho cowhide, which haj hitherto descended upon tho Yankee's head and' shoulders now began to full moro weakly and wildly, and ft became evident that the assail ant, half stunned, choked, and partially blinded, was ccttins tho worst of it. Hi was fast oozing out. " Tako a turkey," shouted Brown, as a no ble old gobbler descended fairly upon tho Colonel's bend, and bursting, filled hair and eyes with delicious looking stuffing, " horo's the fixings," ho continued, as tho squash and jel ly followod after. By this timo tho Colonel was irretrievably lefeatcd, and his merciless opponent soized a hugo plum-pudding, steaming hot and holding it abovo his head with both hands, seemed about to bury him beneath it, when the Colonel quailed in terror, and throwing down his cowhide, turned about and mad a rush for tha door. ' Stop for the pudding, Colonel, stop for tha pudding," shouted Brown. " Pudding, Colo- nol, pudding," screamed all his fellow 1x3rd- ors, amid convulsions of laughter. But tha Colonel was too terrified to listen to their kind invitations, and did not cease running until ha had locked himself into his room. But although the Colonel escaped from tha plum pudding, ho could not escape from the ridicub which the affair occasioned. He subsequently challenged four persons against whom his ire was particularly excited, and they nil consented to fight, but availing them- solves of tho privilege of the challenged party appointed pudding bags for their woapons.- At length the unhappy duelist, finding no ono was willing to shoot or be shot, was obliged to quit the State. 07 Mr. Spikes proposes embarking In the oxhib.tion business. Ho will pay handsomely for the following " living curiosities A man who has becomo opulent hy imbibing bud liquor at the comer groceries, and sing, ing comic songs in tho streets Into o'niglit. A stump orator who can make ft speech without alluding to the " Ship of Slate," and to "our Ilcvol itionaiy Forofi.thors." A Washington letter writer who has over been guilty of telling tho truth. A jo ing man of "liter iry tisto," wo d.v not strongly opine th.it he would treble tiro 1 1 . ci-li hn of any papor ly taking the edib r'nt do nrtment und r h's own exclusiro coiili 1 OCT Nobility and gentleness go hand fit hand and when t S.eayoung gontleman kind to his mother, and gcntlo and forbearing to hU bro!hira and sisters, I think ho has noUe heart. ; 1 ' ' fjT The man who travels on ft " train cl ideas,? will bo ever apt to know more about tho world tliaa he who travoUonty on a 'train of cars "" ' v 1 ..IML HI II -- 1 - OCT The St Pol Dnoomt saysv that the new Bute of MinneiU,wiU contain,moro-valuable land and more navtgabl wokora tMa any Stats m th- Unioik : r.-,- ,

1f VOL III. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 24, 1857. NO 15. k 1 15 : Ill ifltf m r,ff . From tha Boston Atlai. THE SAILOIt'4 DREAM. One beautiful Sunday forenoon, I was walk ing the quarter deck of a fine ship running down the north-east trades. Wm. Thornton, (nolil weather-beaten sailor was at the wheel and I could hear him occasionally humming tho air of " Black-eyed Susan," when my back was towards him. Uo was an excollent holmsman, and kept tho ship to her course true as tho needle of the polos. Although it is still, as it was then, contrary to rulo, to en tor into conversation with the man at the wheel, yet observing William smile, and raise his hat Upon "nine hairs," I asked him sympathcti colly " What are you thinking about, Wil liam ? " " About my sweetheart, sir." " Are you going to get married again when you re turn ? " "I was nevor married, sir, nor never Will be, if I should live a thousand years, yet t have a sweetheart. It's just 40 years this day since I saw her, and I never saw hor but once. " But what interest can you have in an old salt's silly love dreams ?" "Go ahead William, tell mo about this sweetheart. I'm :n love myself, and can sympathise with you. " Well, sir. it is just 40 years this day since I strolled into one of the big churches in Broadway, and was invited to a scat in a grand pew by an elderly gentleman. There were two young ladies with him, One of them, the moment our eyes met, said as plainly as eyes could speak, " I'm glad to see you again." I was sure f had seen her before, I felt that we were old playmates, but for the soul of me I could not tell where. I could hardly take my eyes off of hor, she looked so good. When the services commenced she put a prayer-book in my hand and pointed to tho " lesson for the day," but I looked more at her than I did at the lesson. I was young then, sir, and good looking, too, and had as much self-conceit as most young men, but the more I looked at that sweet girl the less I thought of myself. When the services wore over I followed her to the door of the carriage, and could not help saying, as the gentleman handed her in, " God bless you, my sweet angel," and to my surprise instead of being offended, she replied, " Thank you, sir, and may lie bless you too," The gontleman raised his hat to mo and smiled. "Good-byo, Jack," he said "good luck to you." It was tho voice of a sailor; he was no doubt, a retired sea captain. Both the ladies, though I had neglected ono entirely, bowed to mo out of the carriage window. In a moment they were gone, and I never saw them from that jny to this, yet, from that day to this, I have truly loved that sweet girl." " Did you never try to find who she was ?" I inquired. "No, sir; what was the use? I felt my self a poor, ignorant sailor, hardly able to writo my own name ; and I was not silly enough to think that such a lovely girl would care anything about me. Thinking about her took all the self-conceit out of me." " But you said you thought you had seeir- ber before ; how was that ?" " It was only a dream, sir. I nover saw her beforo. Now, as I'm growing old, I have beon thinking seriously about trying to be good, that I may meet hor in heaven. Every Sunday for forty years, has the sceno in that church been before me, and every time I think upon my sweet girl, she looks moro lovely than before. I could nover think of marrying, with her image ever present in my mind. Do you think, sir, it is possible for an old sinner liko mo to be good enough to go to Heaven ? " "Why not, William?" " I'll tell you why. About eight years ago I left the sea, for then I dreamed that I saw my dear angol go to Heaven, and I tried to bo good. I worked alongshore with niggers and stevedores, and had over two thousand dollars that 1 savod, so I got along very comfortably. I joined a church, and thought I had got religion, when a rascally deacon cheated me out of fifty dollars. I was bo thundering mad, that I gavo the fellow an awful hiding, and before ho could set the law dogs on me, I was at sea again. I think now that I did very wrong J but I'm so hard hearted, that I can't in my soul, forgive the fellow, even to this day. "My sweet angel tells me in my dreams that I must forgive him, and that if 1 wish to join her I must be good." He said much moro, but the above affords a glance at his inner life, and shows the purity of his soul. It must not be thought that he was 4 man of dauntlesscourage ; bold even to recklessness, and quick to resent an insult. No men are thrown more upon their own resources for mental food than seamen. For weeks and even months sky and water are their only companions ; and on long voyages, whea they have watch-and-watch, their la-lxir is very light It is then their minds dwell upon the pleasant scenes of the past, and make the dross of earth appear divine. Bill Thornton's case is not singular. Almost every sailor has some beauteous love-dream, and hence the reason why so few of them marry. The ideal has moro charms for them than the real. With all their faults sailors are not bad men As a class, in a rude way, they lore the true, the beautiful and the good, and are proverbial for their generosity. May they all go to hea-' yen at last Warts on Horses. - A correspondent of the Country Gentleman ' says i "I had a horse which had wart on one ' of his fore legs. I applied s ligature, and in few days it came off, and appeared to be cured ; but soon began to grow again, and in a few months became ss large as hen's egg, and eventually a running sore. I again removed it with ft ligature, and applied nitrate of silver .(innar caustic) to the wound at intervals of . two or three dtys, for about three weeks, when It healed up and has given no furthertrou-Ve," From the Cayuga Chief. NEBRA8KA CORRESPONDENCE. Omaha Citt, N. T., Dec. 3. 1850. Dear Sir : Having a little leisure timo, I improve it by writing to you of Nebraska ; and I will horo say that I have not had a vory great chance to look about, as it was so late when we arrived. We found Omaha a now town, pleasantly situatod on the Missouri river, some eight hundred miles (by way of tho river) abovo St. Louis. It is, as you are aware, the Capital of tho Territory, and con-tuins some fifteen hundred inhabitants. Ithas quite a number of stores, some of which are fine three-story brick buildings and several fine residences, also two churches, ono of which is to bo dedicated next Sabbath, and the other will not be completed, except the basement this year. When you take into account that tho town is only a little over two years old, you can . niako up your mind as to its vitality. Tho country back of the town is rolling prairie, and appears to bo pretty well watered by springs and small streams, and I should think was well supplied with quarry stono. Coal also has been foud in various places. Along the Missouri and other large rivers, there is considerable timber, although the scarcity of timber is our greatest drawback Lumber is high, and .pur pine is all brought up from St. Louis, and costs when in good condition, about $60per one thousand feet. Since I havo been here, I have known it sold for $120. Property has risen very rapidly the past season, and lots on what is now call ed the best business street, are worth $3,000 each. These lots are sixty-six foot front, by one hundred and thirty-two feet deep. Land about town is held at from twenty-five to one hundred dollars an acre, and as the land is not yet in market, you could of course get only a quit claim title at that. There aro a number of new towns already laid out in tho territory and will of course be moro in tho spring. There aro not, however, but few towns that contain many inhabitants, off from tho Mis souri but we think that thero will bo a num ber of smart towns along the Platte valley, for wo expect that some of theso days, that, that natural course for a railroad to tho Pacific, will bo improved, and that the "iron horso" will snort through flio Platte valley, at tho rate of fifty miles an hour, boaring the riches of a world behind him. I think that valley is as rich a portion of country as thero is in the United States, being from fivo to twelve miles wide, and many hundred miles long. Tho water on tho high prairies is hard, but in the Missouri and Platte rivers it is soft, and in somo portions, and I don't know but in the whole of the latter rivers valley, it is also soft. Since I have been here, I have fallen in with a number of persons who have lived in Kan sas, and they uniformly agree in pronouncing Nebraska fully equal to Kansas, and much the most healthy, I have not seen a marsh here, and but ono or two sloughs, and tho banks of the small streams aro invariably high nnd tho streams themselves rapid. I am also told that tho railroad engineers find Council Bluffs to bo two hundred and seventy-two feet higher than Davenport, which accounts for the rapidity of our streams. Speculators are plenty, and speculation is rampant, and, as a necessary consequence, money is in great demand. Thrco per cent per month, is as common here as twelvo per annum in Wisconsin, and many persons are getting as high as five per cont per month for monoy. Everything in tho way of provisions is also very high. Flour is selling for seven dollars per hundred, potatoes twelve shillings per bushel, beans five dollars per bushel, butter fifty cents per pound, sugar fourteon or fif teen cents do., molasses from six to ten shil lings per gallon, cheeso two shillings per lb., dried apples ten cents do., fresh pork ten cents, lard seventeen cents, hams seventeen cents, codfish twelvo and a half cents, fresh beef eight, snd venison ten cents corn in tho car eighty cents, oats eighty cents, and wheat about ten shillings per bushel. Thus you see it costs something to livo, but wages aro also very high. Common laborers, since I have been here, get $2 per day, carpenters three to four dollars, masons the same and toams four dollars per day. I Of the climate I can say but little. After we came, I think the fall was about like Wis consin ; very little rain, days mostly pleasant, until about the twenty-fourth of November, when wo had a fall of snow of near six inches deep. During the following week, it gradual ly went off until thero was just about enough left for a good bottom for sleighing. Monday morning, the 1st inst., it again commenced snowing, and continued to snow and blow for two days and nights and I must say that I never saw so severe a storm in my life. This morning was pleasant overhead, but hugo snow drifts lie in every place whoro one could pos sibly stick. I cannot toll how deep the snow would have bean had it not blowed so, but there are drifts here in town as many as sev en feet high. My compliments are due to the Postmaster for sending forward my mail. As my sheet is full, I will close. Yours, E. n. B, Speculations In Nebraska Real estate speculation is rampant in Nebraska. Lots are soiling in Omaha at New York city figures. One sale of a lot GOxl32, at $30,000, is reportod. The entire Territory is rapidly being mapped out into town lots. It is proposed, by some of the papers, that Congress pass an act reserving every sixteenth gection' for agricultural purpeess. It should be AomLafayHU (Ind.) Jurnal . - . 1 l I M II li (T The best capital that young man can start with in lift is industry, with good sense, courage, and the fear of God. They are better than cash, credit, qt friends, THE ANGEL IN DISGUISE I OK, HOW TO EUOOKE A UI&DAND A ROMANTIC AND VET TBUB BT0HY. From the Portland (Me.) Tranurlpt.j A beatiful young heiress had become so disgustod with ft flattering set of soft-patcd proma-haircd moustache-lipped, strongly per fumed, suitors for her hand, that she shut herself from tho fashionublo world, turnod all her property into money, deposited it in banks, donned a cheap wardrobe, put on a mask, and wcnt pedestrian-like, through the city in which she had hitherto moved with so much display and magnificence. Sho asked alms of thoso who of Into had knelt at her foot and sued for her hand. They knew hor not, and casting a look of scorn upon hor veiled face and coarse wardrobe, bado her begono. Sho entered tho country hero she met with derision and scorn. A few kind hearted people, it is true, bestow ed aid, but these were of the poorer class, who had hard work to procure their own daily bread ; but they could not turn a fellow creature hungry from their door j and thoreforc gave a small pittanco from their scanty storo Ono summer day, a large party met on beach. They were mostly from the city. Tho disguised heiress, from some causo oroth-cr, had wandered there. She asked alms ol somo termed "upper tens." They spoke tauntingly, but gave nothing. What they said had been heard by quite a number of their company. Most of them laughed, or looked as if they thought it " served her right." Tho beggar woman turned about and was walking sadly away, when a good looking gentleman stepped forward and catching hold of her arm, thus spoke : "Stay, my good woman tell mo what you want." She replied in a low trembling tone, "I want a sixpence only a sixpence" "You shall have ten times the sum. Here," he added, drawing from his pocket an eagle, and placed it in the gloved hand of tho woman, " take this, and if it is not enough I will give you another." Tho heiress returned tho eagle, exclaiming, "I want a sixpence only a sixpence." Seeing that sho could not be made to take the coin, the gentleman drew forth a sixpence and gave it to tho strange being beside him, who after thanking the generous donor, walk ed slowly away. After being laughed at for so doing by his comrades, ho sot out in pursuit of tho beggar woman, saying. " Perhaps sho is an heiress or an angel in disguise I mean to ascertain." Not that ho thought this. Ho wished to show his indifference to what his comrades said, besides satisfying himsclfabout the strange fumalo whom ho had aided. Ho soon over took her, and addressed her thtts "Pardon mo, madam, fortmrsuing you. I would know moro about you." As tho speaker ceased, tho mask dropped from the face of the female, and tho beautiful heiress portrayed beforo tho astonished gen tleninn. That they were afterwards married, the reader has already imagined, for the heiress used tliis means of procuring a worthy husband, and tho generous gentleman had been long looking for an heiress in disguise. Tho happy husband is often heard to say that ho got an " heiress for a sixpence." M ILL IT BE A WARNING. A correspondent of tho Boston Journal says that tho wife of Huntington, tho forger, has been stripped of her homo and her all in one hour. The sheriff has sold her house over her head. Her jowels, valued at $13,000, aro with tho Beldcns. What has boon dono with the vast sums of money Huntington left, none can tell. But this is true, that want, liko an armed man, has come into his family. And to keep herself from absolute want she has been compelled to part with her clothes and her little ornaments of better days. So tho career of crime has one moro beacon set up in tho pathway of life one moro family has been hurled from tho summit of high position and honor in ft moment one more wifo and mother to gather up her little children, on whoso heads dishonor has been stamped, without their fault black as tho brand of Cain, and go out from a comfortable homo to meet want, and scorn, and brave the cold, glassy eye of tho world, and fcol the hot breath of its sneer ono moro example is given to us to teach how the same talents which lead to high crime and tho pris- on, employed aright could confer honor and permanent success on its possessor, and be a blessing to tho land. Liko a convict who fulls from a ship, Huntington has parted and agi tated the waves for a moment, and goes down beneath the surge, and the rolling flood sweeps over his placo, and the tide of life waves on forgotting that ho ever lived. But who will be counselled, warned, saved by his end ? Who will beliove the lesson that thousands of years have taught, that integrity and honor aro the only paths to permanent success. Phila. Timet. A School Girl' Love. Thero is both truth snd poetry in the fol lowing lines, written by school girl, and we dare say that the recollection of those early dreams, so strangely different from the actual experience of life, are still the most pleasant of all memorios. Thero is no sunshine like that ol childhood. It gleams through all the olouds of disappointment; and smiles upon us till the river of life mingles with the ocean of eternity: I eoild sa set mj leeeon, Wl the book before my ees For the thought! o Cenuj Willie, Came a bobbin ia between. frV The best way to expand the chest is tejsvs large heart inside of it. SHAPING TREES AND SHRUBS Who has not observed the great difference in beauty between a handsomely shaped tree and ono of uncouth or distorted form of the same species ? How ofton do purchasers of ornamental shrubs and trees anxiously search for symmetrical specimens forgetting, or not knowing, that tho most irregular may boensi ly pruned into any desired shape. If tho Dutch gardeners display so much skill in training vegetable growth into peacocks and hedge hogs, American gardners may find an appropriate exercise of their skill in imitating the graceful and beautiful in nature. At tho present season, or during tho commencement of vigorous growth, tho desirable object may bo most cosily accomplished. By occasionally removing needless shoots, but more frequently shortening back such as or" overgrown or pinching in those that threaten to becomo so, and looping certain portions to induce dormant buds to push where branches and foliago may be deficient, a degreo of skill may bo oxorciscd, not unworthy of comparison with that of the artist who developes a beautiful statute from a shapeless block of marblo. Even small plants, which othcrwiso would grow tall and meagre, may be made to assume a bushy and thick appearance, by pinching off the ends of the leading shoots while they are young. Tho Jinghsn gardeners nave acquired a skill in managing in this way their pot plants intended for public exhibition, that is really astonishing to those who first witness the rich, beautiful and symmetrical masses of flowers and foliage which they are thus enabled to present to view. A great error is ofton committed when flow ering plants are placed in open ground, by crowding them too closely together, giving them too much tho appearance of weeds. They are much tho best when every plant is allowed full room to expand. When Crowded, the flowers aro fower and more imperfect, and the plants and foliago slender, and greatly in ferior in beauty to tho dense and rich mass of well developed leaves and bloom of a freely growing uncrowded plant. Atbang Cultivator. From tho SnnFrnnciscoIIcriilil Jan 5, a men mse. Some fivo years ago, a company, consisting of five Irishmen and one man from Piko county, " located" on a claim near Allison's ranch on Wolf Creek, and but a couple of miles from . Grass Valley. At first, and for nearly two years they worked in the bed of tho stream and in the lionks, making fair average wages-About cightoon months ago they struck vein of auriferous quartz. A wagon load of it was dug up, crushed and found to yield one hun drcd dollars to tho ton. They then carried several loads of it to the Gold Hill mill, which yielded ono hundred and fifty dollars to the ton, and sixty-two tons of tho rock produced as high as throe hundred dollars per ton. The company then went to work to erect a quartz mill, which was completed on tho first of October last, at a cost of $10,000. Meanwhile somo seven nunarea tons more were gotten out, which yieldod all tho way from two hundred and fifty to fivo hundred dollars per ton Tho lead is from one to four feet in thickness and increases in width as explorations are made The cost of crushing the rock is twelve dollars ahd fifty cents, and the averngo amount crushed twenty tons por day. The regular yield of amalgum of this mill is not less than thirty thousand dollars por week ; and as the total expenses of runnkg it will not exceed fifteen hundred dollars for tho sanio length of timo, it is easy to see what a princely fortune is rolling in upon tho fortunate ownors of this gold mino. A portion only of their earnings is brought down to tho mint for coinage, but as tho subjoined figures show, that " institu tion " can bear unequivocal testimony of tho richness of their claim. On tho 8th of November there were deposi ted nino hundred and twenty-two ounces ; on the 27th ono thousand ono hundred and nine ty-tureo ounces, and sixty-four hundreths of an ounce. J. ho original holders ot this magnificent claim still retain possession of it, and, as might be expected, aro totally adverse to disposing of shares. A lovii Blunder. Two young gentlemen mot, a few evenings ago, at the bouse ot an acquaintance, some young ladies blew out tho lamp, and our two friends, thinking it ft favorable momont to make known the state of their feelings Eo the fair object of their rcgard.moved their feelings to tho fair object of their regard, moved their scats at the samo instant, and placed themselves, as thoy supposed, by the lady's sido i sho had "also moved, and the gentlemen were in reality, next to each other. As our friend could not whisper without betraying their wherabouts, they both gently took, as thoy thought, the soft littlo hand of the charmer ; and whon after ft whilo, thoy ventured to give a tcudcr pressure, each was enraptured to linn it retumod with an unmistakable squeeze. It in b well imagined thai moments flew rapidly in this silent interchange of mutual affection. But the ladies, wondcreing at tho unusual silence of the gentlemen, one of thom noiselessly slipped out, and suddenly returned with ft light There sat our friends, most lovingly squeezing each othercrs hands, and supreme delight beaming in their eyes. Thoir consternation, and the octacy of the ladies may bo imagined, but not described. Doth gentlemen bolted, and one was afterwards heard to say that "he thought all the while Miss 's hand felt rattier naru. Illinois CaluinH fjT That woman deserves not husband's generous love who will not greet him with smiles as he returns from the labor of the day who will not try to-chain him to his home by the sweet enchantment of s cheerful heart. Thore is not one in fifty that is so unfeeling ss to withstand such sn influence, and break sway from such t b,oe, , ., '.'m LETTER FROM HON. CHARLES SUMNER TO THE MASNACHU-SETTS LEGISLATURE. In tho Massachusetts IIouso of Representatives on Friday, communication accepting tho office of Senator in tho United States for tho next six years, was receivod from Hon. Charles Sumner, and read by tho Speaker, Hon. Charles A. Pholps. Fellow Citizeni of the Senate and House of Hep- tcsenlatives. I havo beon officially notified that the pco- plo of Massachusetts, by concurrent votes o' both tho branches of tho Legislature, have charged mo with tho duty of representing them in the Scnato of tho United States for another term of six years on the expiration of that which I now havo tho honor to hold. This renewed trust jf accept with gratitude enhanced by tho peculiar circumstances un. dor which it has Ixsen bestowed. But far beyond every personal gratification is tho delight of knowing by this sign, that the people of Massachusetts forgetting ancient par ty hates, havo at last como together in frater nal support of a sacred cause, compared with which tho fate of any public servant is of small account. When first selected for this eminent trust I was a stranger to all official life. Untried in public affairs, I was takon up and placed, without antecedent aspiration, in tho station where after an experience of nearly six years, you now, with spontaneous unanimity, bid me remain.About to commence ft fresh term of servico turn with honest pride to that which is about to closo, whilo I greet anew the duties and responsibilities of my position ; hoping that by concicntious endeavors, I may do something in the future better than in tho past, and mindful that ho who girdcth on his armor should not boast himself as ho who puttcth it off. Tho duties of a public servant are not al ways conspicuous. Much of his timo is ab sorbed in cases, which, if not obscure, aro lit tle calculated to attract public attention. Mas sachusetts justly expects that no such interests shall be neglected. But by solemn resolution of her Legislature, by the votes of her people, and by the voice of her history, Massachusetts especially enjoins upon her representatives to see that, at all hazards, and whatever else may sutler, Freedom shall prevail. Let me not neglect tins injunction. Ahko by sympathy with tho slave and by a determination to save ourselves from wretched thraldom, we arc also summoned to tho ef fort now organized for tho emancipation of tho National Government from a degrading influ ence hostile to civilization which, wherever it shows, itself oven at a distance, is brutal vulgar and mean, and constitutes an unnatural tyranny, calculated to arouse the generous in dignation ot good men. Of course, no person, who is not ready to say in his heart that there is no God, can doubt tho certain result. But this result, like every great good, can be accomplished only by a well directed effort. I know something of tho labor and trial which such sorvico impos es ; 1 also know something of the satisfaction which it attords, giving to all who truly es pouse it, a serencr joy than anything in office or honor. In tho weary prostration of months, from which 1 have now happily risen, my sharpest pang camo out of my enforced separation from the cause which was so dear to me ; and now my chief joy is in the assurance that to this service 1 may dedicate tho vigorous health which, through medical caro and the kindly ministration ol nature, 1 am permitted to ex pect. In this well founded assurance I welcome the trust which has again been conferred upon me, whilo I onco more bespeak tho candid judgment of my fellow-citizens, and once more invoke tho guardianship ol a benignant Providence.I have tho honor to bCi fellow citizens, With grateful regard, your faithful. Servant and Senator, CHAS. SUMNER." On motion of Mr. Hale, of Boston, the abovo letter was ordered to bo entered in tho daily journal ot ttio House. THE BOOK OF TIIaNKS. " I feci so vexed and out of temper with Bon !" cried Mark, "that 1 really must" " Do something in revenge ? " cried his cou sin Cecilia. " No ; look over my book of thanks." " What's that ? " inquired his cousin, as she saw him turning over the loaves of a copy book nearly full of writing, in a round, text hand. " Here it is," said Mark, who then road aloud. ,' March 8 Ben lent me his new hat-Hero again : Juno 4 When I lost my shilling, Ben made it up kindly. " Well," observed the boy, turningdown tho leaf, "Ben is a Rood fellow after alL" " What do you noto down in that book ?" inquired Cecelia, lookingovcr his shoulder with somo curiosity. " All the kindnesses that are ever shown me ; you would wonder how many there are: 1 tind a great deal ol good lrom marking thorn down. I do not forget them as I might do if I only trusted to my. memory., so 1 hope that I am not often ungrateful : and when I am cross and out of temper I almost always feel good humored again if I only look over my book." "I wonder what sort of things you put dow iv" saitL Gw.ilia. ; " lot mo. glance over a page." 'Mrs. Wailo asked me to spend a day at her house, and made me. vory happy indeed." "Mrs. 1 helps gave live shillings." " Old Martha Pago asked me every day when I was ill," . " Why do you put fatl.or and mother at tho top of every page ? " asked his cousin. "U they show mo so much kindnes that 1 cannot put it all down, so I just writo their names to remind myself of my great debt of lovo. I know that 1 nover can pay it. And see what I havo put at tha beginning of my book " hvtry goo-i jtjt u from wove," this is to mako mc remember that all the kind friends that I hav. were iriven to ma hv tha Lord.. and while I am grateful td them, I should first of all be thankful to Him." --.- I think that luch of my readers as have ability and time would tind H a capital rian to keep ft Book of Thanks i and may such as cannot write them down yet, keep ft book of remembrances of past kindnesses ' in their hurts, " ' ADDRESS OF W. M. COItHV. To my Constituents of the CourJij and City) The election to fill John P. Slough's vacan-cy will be hold next Monday, and I make it the occasion of a brief confurenco with my con stituents. 7 ho facts of tho expulsion aro all beforo you. To-day there was read in the IIouso a timid protest, reproducing (ho onesided statement of tho manifesto which was signed by tho Democrats here, except myself, and drawn up by Stanley Matthews, who worthily reproduced and defended it last Saturday night in Cincinnati. I can well afford to leave tho document, and the despicable defence of it in your hands. You have read mid appreciated tho original resolution for mileage and per diem, tho controversy over it between Cadwcll and Slough, the words of the former, the blow of the latter, his refusal to iqiologizc to the IIouso, his mutilation of tho statement ho twico road to tho IIouso when it went on tho House journal, his persistence in the original fault at crory stage of the IIouso proceedings, and his hectoring the House and threat ening tho debater up tho voto of expulsion. H ith his general character and manners you aro likowisc acquainted. When the case was heard there wasa choice of resolutions. Mr. Bunker's proposed expulsion, pure and simple. Mr. Hutchison's proposed that Cadwell should be censured by vote, and that Slough should lie publicly reprimanded in open session by tho speaker in behalf of tho House. The signers of the manifesto chose to support tho latter resolution. The majority of two-thirds supported the former. I was ono of them, and spoke and voted in tho affirmative. I now approve of what 1 then did, and if the thing was to do over to day, I would do it again. I have no doubt of bomg sustained by tho action of tho constituency on tho Kith instant. As one of tho guardians of your interest and honor, I could not hesitate between tho resolutions. Expulsion, pure and simple, was tl e proper course of tho Legislature. To have adopted tho other resolution, of a voto of cen sure on Cadwoll, and of public reprimand of aiough, hy the peakcr, would have be n an error. Tho question was not how tho matter of right and wrong stood between the parties, but what was duo to itself by a deliberative body whoso sanctity had been destroyed by an act of violence pcrpctratod by ono member on another in open session. The physical harm dono by Slough to Cadwcll was not great; but a law-maker had become a law breaker in tho very sanctuary of legislation. All that is said about the trilling injury intlic-tod is inappropriate, because there was actual. palpablo violence, with an evil intention ; and homicido would not have been a higher ag ression upon tho Legislature sittine as a de liberative body. Sir. Cadwell had characterized the proposition of Mr. Slough in deserved lang-ago, and as ths majority and minority of the Committee say, without any intention to give oil'ense. Tho IIouso was not outraged by tho language, nor was any other member; and all tho Committee find no fault with Mr. Cad wcll. H would have been, therefore, folly for inu uouse mpass tnovule ot censure on him. Tho other branch of Mr. Hutchison's resolu tion was also objectionable; it proposed the public reprimand of Mr. Slough before the House by the Speaker. But Mr. Slough's of- tenso was principally in his contumacious re fusal to mako amends to the House ; and it would havo beon very edifying to have the Speaker scolding him, and he swearing ut the speaker as ho had done at the debaters. That day in tho history of the Ohio Legislature would have been more mcmorab o than the day of tho assault. I did not intend to con tribute to tho eottins up of such a scene. I do not think well of the entertainment, nor du my constituents. The true line of duty was to exoel Mr. S. because he had violated the rights of the House by assaulting a fellow member, and afterw ards persisted in his fault, in spite of delay forscv cral days, the expressed wish of his friends and tho hope of tho wholo House. There was no time, up to tho calling of yeas and navs. that tho Houso would not have been glad to near Mr. siougn say, i nave trespassed on the dignity and decency of this place, and ask forgiveness for it." The apology would have been at onco received, and everybody felt re lief and pleasure. Having replied to the burthen of the mani festo respecting the smallncss of the harm done, by showing that it hid nothing to do with tho pending question, 1 will add, that il the greatest injury had been perpetrated in heat of blood, but had been repented of, and atoned for, so far as tho IIouso was concerned by a manly acknowledgement and ajiology, the offence against us would havo been infinitely less than it is under present circum stances. 1 ho Legislature owed it to itself, in tho actual case, to expel the member ; but in tho case suggested, our duty would have been reversed. We could sit with a savage who ropentod and asked forgiveness, but not with ono who persisted in the injury, and constantly, by speech and writing, threatened its repetition.And this leads to the correction of another error in all tho reasoning of tho advocates of Mr. Slough, lhcy insist that tho act of ex pulsion ''is tho stamp of degradation." This is also a mistake The degradation is not the act of the Legislature, but his own act. If the Legislature do injustice by taking counsel of its passions, its prejudices, its malice, instead of govorning itself by the rulo of recilude, il is tho Legislature which becomes degraded, and prostrated. 1 ho party expelled rises higher than before in men's esteem, because of his having suffered injustice If I had spoken at Metropolitan Hall, I should have told the president of the meeting tho story of his own expulsion by the Carthage Convention several years ago, when ho was a candidate against J. Farran for Congress. It is the right of all tho candidates in that deliberative body to be heard before the vote is taken, air. Uulla- ghcr mounted tho stand to speak. He was received with scorn and hisses, tie persisted; the imetinc silenced biut. snd ho left off speak ing with a protest, at which the whole Con vention jeered, and gnvo him throe insulting rounds of cheering as bo left tho ground. The coses aro not in any part tho same. He was not a member of tho convention, but a candi date beforo it. Tho body did what tho Leg islature did not dieted unjustly, outrageously, instantly, with contumelious words, shouts and gestures, in destroying his righu. Thoy took bad counsel of their passions. 1 hey were the friends of a popular man whom thoy wan-tod to nominate at once, and by acclamation. ft wm sudden east of injustice, which hurtful only to thoie who participated ana not to him who endured it like a man. . The an- locy is close enough, however, to givo ns light on tho present question. The act of expulsion consigned not Mr. Gallagher to Infamy. He has no doubt forgotten it altogether. - And yot be talked of the corruption of Mood, the desolation of family, and the irreparable wrong of expulsion. I heard admired and wwdwed at (be IhoughUeessMS of excited and unbalanced minds. The President's rulings of order, during tho meeting at iJemocratio Hall, from first to last, on Satur-day night, were about as bad as Mr. Matthews' spjech.and the other proceedings. It was well for the credit of the four elected Congressmen-who wore advertised to speak, that they did nut vindicate the Legislature, by appearing at an entertainment which did not dosorve thoir distinguished presence. As a member of thu iiouso ol Iteprosoiitntives of Ohio, I felt scan dnhzedat tho conduct, passionate and foolish moro than deliberate, of tho officers and the majority of that meeting. .Mr. Matthews found Ins lovel, und tho stenographer has da-gucrreotyped him for inspection as long as he shall Ixs of any intorest to anybody. I leavo the case in your liands, my constituents of tho county and city, and advise at the sanio timo that no man who moans well to his country, and has bad time to rctlcctonhis duty, shall go to tho polls to return an cx-member who has disgraced tho City Ollices by violence, Odd Fellows' Hall by violonoo, tha Ohio Legislature by violence perpetrated on the place, and all when business was being transacted. Tho public has already oiid enough, unavadingly, for his oducation. W. M. COURT. CotuMnus, Fob. 12. 1857. HOW TO MEET A DUELMf, A few years since, as a New England gentleman called Brown was passing a few days at a hotel in ono of our Wostern cities, he had the misfortune to unintentionally offend tho stisceptiblo honor of a tall Indiana Colonel, who was ono of his fellow boarders. His apol-gics not being satisfactory, a challenge was sent him, wliich, however, he declinel upon tho ground of conscientious scruples. The Colonel, who by the way had won in two or three encounters quito a reputation as duelist, at once conceived tho idea that his opponent was a coward and resolved to disgrace him by Hogging him in tho face of all the as-sjinblcd wisdom of tho houso. Accordingly, tho next day at dinner tt'ino, in marched the duelist, armed with a formidable cowhide, and advancing to Brown's chair, proceeded to dust his jacket for him in tho most approvod style. Brown was astonished. Luckily be hod been a Lieutenant of Militia in his native State, and knew the importance of incommoding his enemy by a diversion. So seizing a gravy turreen ho tossed the contents into the face of this belligerent Colonel and before that hero could recover from the drowning sensation thus occasioned, he sprang upon tho table and began to showor upon him with a liberal hanj tho contonts of tho dishes around. " You are an internal " "Coward," the Colonel was about to saf, but at that moment a plate of greens struck lull upon Ins month, and tho wordwas-block-.uled and lost forever. "Ha," cried tho littlo New Englandor, whose blood was now up, " fond of greens aro you ? tako a potatoo too ; " and ho hurled ft telling volley of hard potatoes at him. ' Excellent eggs here, capital things with calves' heads," and crash camo a plate of soft boiled eggs against tho side of his craninm. Tho blows of tho cowhide, which haj hitherto descended upon tho Yankee's head and' shoulders now began to full moro weakly and wildly, and ft became evident that the assail ant, half stunned, choked, and partially blinded, was ccttins tho worst of it. Hi was fast oozing out. " Tako a turkey," shouted Brown, as a no ble old gobbler descended fairly upon tho Colonel's bend, and bursting, filled hair and eyes with delicious looking stuffing, " horo's the fixings," ho continued, as tho squash and jel ly followod after. By this timo tho Colonel was irretrievably lefeatcd, and his merciless opponent soized a hugo plum-pudding, steaming hot and holding it abovo his head with both hands, seemed about to bury him beneath it, when the Colonel quailed in terror, and throwing down his cowhide, turned about and mad a rush for tha door. ' Stop for the pudding, Colonel, stop for tha pudding," shouted Brown. " Pudding, Colo- nol, pudding," screamed all his fellow 1x3rd- ors, amid convulsions of laughter. But tha Colonel was too terrified to listen to their kind invitations, and did not cease running until ha had locked himself into his room. But although the Colonel escaped from tha plum pudding, ho could not escape from the ridicub which the affair occasioned. He subsequently challenged four persons against whom his ire was particularly excited, and they nil consented to fight, but availing them- solves of tho privilege of the challenged party appointed pudding bags for their woapons.- At length the unhappy duelist, finding no ono was willing to shoot or be shot, was obliged to quit the State. 07 Mr. Spikes proposes embarking In the oxhib.tion business. Ho will pay handsomely for the following " living curiosities A man who has becomo opulent hy imbibing bud liquor at the comer groceries, and sing, ing comic songs in tho streets Into o'niglit. A stump orator who can make ft speech without alluding to the " Ship of Slate," and to "our Ilcvol itionaiy Forofi.thors." A Washington letter writer who has over been guilty of telling tho truth. A jo ing man of "liter iry tisto," wo d.v not strongly opine th.it he would treble tiro 1 1 . ci-li hn of any papor ly taking the edib r'nt do nrtment und r h's own exclusiro coiili 1 OCT Nobility and gentleness go hand fit hand and when t S.eayoung gontleman kind to his mother, and gcntlo and forbearing to hU bro!hira and sisters, I think ho has noUe heart. ; 1 ' ' fjT The man who travels on ft " train cl ideas,? will bo ever apt to know more about tho world tliaa he who travoUonty on a 'train of cars "" ' v 1 ..IML HI II -- 1 - OCT The St Pol Dnoomt saysv that the new Bute of MinneiU,wiU contain,moro-valuable land and more navtgabl wokora tMa any Stats m th- Unioik : r.-,- ,